U.S. Hate Crime Law Punishes Transgender Woman’s Killer, in a First

[Jacqueline]

 U.S. Hate Crime Law Punishes Transgender Woman's Killer, in a First

  https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/16/us/us-hate-crime-law-transgender-murder.html?_r=0
       
LIAM STACK, NY Times, MAY 16, 2017
         
A Mississippi man was sentenced to 49 years in prison on Monday for killing his transgender former girlfriend, a case the Justice Department said was the first involving violence against a transgender person to be prosecuted under the federal Hate Crimes Act.
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         In these dark times, history is made from dark deeds.

Sincerely,

Joanna

[ainsley]

In an interview with The Sun Herald, a newspaper in Biloxi, Miss., Jenny Wilkins, Ms. Williamson's mother, said the relationship between Mr. Vallum and her daughter, to whom she referred using male pronouns, lasted eight and a half months. "To me, I didn't think that anything was wrong with him," she said of Mr. Vallum. "He was so nice."

"He bought him stuff; he took him out to eat. The whole nine yards," Ms. Wilkins said. "Like something me and my husband do is what him and Josh do."

Awesome.  Now punish the mother for perpetuating the de-legitimization of transgender people.